Leta Herman, Energetic Acupressure

Last September I was invited to join Jeffrey Yuen, an 88^th generation Daoist priest and Chinese Medicine master, on a trip to China to discover the roots of Daoist and Classical Chinese Medicine. In China we visited many temples and mountains where the great masters of the past practiced and developed the theories of Alchemy.

Alchemy can mean many things to many different people. But these Chinese masters believed that people are like gold—that their spirits can never tarnish and disintegrate like other base metals, such as silver. However, we believe we are like silver, and we think we grow old, decrepit and die. In fact, these Chinese masters were believed to become physically immortal!

We visited the home of the most famous immortal, Sun Si Miao, who created a famous treatment called The 13 Ghost Points that helps cleanse the soul of guilt, shame, and trauma what I call the skeletons in your closets.

In addition to this type of cleansing, alchemy is also about opening your portals to see and experience the world differently, so that you don’t need to die and be reborn to experience the innocence of a child. The Nine Stages of Alchemy walk you through a transformative process to truly fly in your life. They include:

• Stages 1-3 – Clear out the baggage of this lifetime and anything you brought into this life (genetics, past-lives, etc.) Release rebellious qi so that you can stop fighting for your heart’s desire and start allowing it to be easy.
• Stages 4-6—Change your perceptions so you can fly in your life. The immortals were purported to actually fly from mountain to mountain in China. Metaphorically, flying is about really living your full potential.
•  Stages 7-9 –Retreat from the world. Overcome time and space. These stages are for those who are ready to remove themselves from everyday life.

Working at this level does not have a time-based schedule. It is simply entering into the mystery and walking that road. It could take months, a year, or lifetimes. We are in dialog about where you are in the process. And the process is simply a map of a path that was created by Chinese masters long ago. It may be a path you follow exactly, or you may create your own path.

Working at this level, I usually do a one-hour session with random music. Each session comes with “homework,” which are very simple meditations to do at home. We can check in on a regular basis (typically on a monthly basis), or you can call me when you feel ready. Sometimes a stage is very easy for a person because the person has worked on it already. Other stages might be very difficult, take a long time, and need to be repeated. There is no right or wrong way. You are the leader.

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Who Would Benefit from the 9 Stages of Alchemy? 

I generally recommend the 9 stages of Alchemy treatments in the following situations:

• When you want to put yourself first in your life but life feels like it's getting in the way
• When you want to enter the mystery of life
• When life is going really well but you feel like there has to be something more to life
• When you want to really fly in your life and realize your full potential
• Sometimes alchemy is appropriate near the end of life or in cases of severe illness